Word: indochina
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...Central Highlands, toward Quang Tri near the coast, and are menacing Hue. As the Communists approach urban centers, the U.S. faces another painful decision: whether to continue its air and artillery support at the cost of civilian lives in the cities. The open aggression has signaled a third Indochina war, and it could drag on as inconclusively, as destructively, as hopelessly as the earlier two wars that engaged first...
...Thieu has enjoyed ever since U.S. and ARVN troops broke up the Cambodian sanctuaries in 1970. Thus, in Saigon the offensive is not considered to be the "final battle" that Richard Nixon called it last week. Rather, it is beginning to be called the start of the Third Indochina War, succeeding the first war waged against the French in the 1940s and 50s and the second, waged for so many years against...
Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, is one of the sponsors of the moratorium. Mendelsohn said last night. "As Americans, we've let this war continue far too long, and in doing so have failed in our obligations to the people of Indochina. The least we can do is take several full days to express our feelings in a variety of actions and remind the people what is happening...
...national moratorium has called on the U.S. government to: stop all bombing throughout Indochina; set a specific date for the immediate withdrawal of all American forces from Indochina; and end all American support and economic aid for the Thieu regime in Saigon...
...Vietnam Courier from Hanoi reported editorially that President Nixon was determined to put off a determination of a final date for troop withdrawal as long as possible; the article said that he intended to maintain a residual force in Vietnam, to step up the air war in Indochina, and that he refused to terminate "the bloody 'pacification' operations of the 'Phoenix' type, licked into shape by the Americans...